Sponsor Cameron Pierce and Get a Pickled Apocalypse
Next week, I will be going to the Sylvia Beach Hotel in Newport, Oregon with Mykle Hansen and Carlton Mellick III for a three day writing marathon. I’ll be completing my next book, The Pickled Apocalypse of Pancake Island. I am currently seeking sponsors for this writing marathon. If you would like to contribute, here’s how the sponsorship levels break down:
$5 – Receive an original illustration of an Ass Goblin battling a flying shark.
$10 – Receive a signed advance copy of The Pickled Apocalypse of Pancake Island
$20 – Receive the limited “Pickled Edition” of The Pickled Apocalypse of Pancake Island (yes, this will really be a pickled book).
In addition, all sponsors will be listed on the dedication page of The Pickled Apocalypse of Pancake Island.
You can send any donations through Paypal to CameronPierce@hotmail.com. If you don’t have Paypal but would like to contribute, just shoot me a message.
For years, I’ve dreamed of going out to Sylvia Beach Hotel in Newport, Oregon for a three day writing retreat. It sounds like the most fantastic place. Every room is themed after a different author, from Edgar Allan Poe to Dr. Seuss, Gertrude Stein to Ernest Hemingway. This is the first opportunity I’ve ever had to go there, and it’s the last opportunity I’ll have for a few years.
Thank you, and please spread the word!
- Cameron Pierce
Cursed by Jeremy C. Shipp on the Stoker final ballot
The final ballot for this year's Stoker Awards was annouced and bizarro author, Jeremy C. Shipp is nominated for Superior Achievement in a Novel for his book Cursed.
Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens #Y'aing'ngah Out Now
My twilight wanderings had led me far. In the plains of Jum I saw pigs that walked as men and muttered wicked chants to an ancient wrathful god, in the city of Ka'esran, I beheld a chorus of wicked children piercing hearts with eldritch secrets meant for no man's ears, I met a lady whose most loving touch brought only pain and was almost deafened by the klaxons of interminable war! But, it was worth it to make it past the gibbering madnesses around me and into the company of the goddess Nish-Fkyua, The-Laugh-That-Mocks-Creation. Her skin was a thousand cats in tight corsets, her eyes two hungry Skramps, and her wide open vagina a Gnufrat of most resplendent hideousness. Her voice caused my fingernails to break off in unison and my eyes to melt into pools of jelly. But, what she told me, the ghastly primal, was worth the price I had paid and the untold millions of miles I had journeyed:
"Beyond the gates of Eth there lies a palace of dark opulence, where a king with no eyes sits upon pillows of manflesh waiting. He waits to lead the most courageous and foolish of men into a place of unspeakable horror and delight. He will take you to a golden door engraved with symbols in old Qothric that tell of the secret location of another door atop a perilous mountain where the Masters from Above Time meet every thousand years to plot the end of being. When you get there, you must...
BUST DOWN THE DOOR AND EAT ALL THE CHICKENS!
Includes stories by Mykle Hansen, Brandi Wells, xTx, Nicole Cushing, Gabe Durham, R.E. Greene, and Jeff Lawhead. Contains book reviews of D. Harlan Wilson's Peckinpah and L.V. Rautenbaumgrabner's As I Was Cutting and Other Nastinesses. Cover art by Kristian Adam.
Eckhard Gerdes Interviewed on Word Riot
Wonderland Award Nominee, Eckard Gerdes, was recently interviewed over at Word Riot.Gerdes talks about some upcoming projects, his past books, and his philosophy of writing.Click here to read.
A Valentine from Eraserhead Press
Eraserhead Press has a Valentine for you – three novellas of Bizarro romance and the first two issues of The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction! All for free!
The Haunted Vagina by Carlton Mellick III
It's difficult to love a woman whose vagina is a gateway to the world of the dead...
Steve is madly in love with his eccentric girlfriend, Stacy. Unfortunately, their sex life has been suffering as of late, because Steve is worried about the odd noises that have been coming from Stacy's pubic region. She says that her vagina is haunted. She doesn't think it's that big of a deal. Steve, on the other hand, completely disagrees.
When a living corpse climbs out of her during an awkward night of sex, Stacy learns that her vagina is actually a doorway to another world. She persuades Steve to climb inside of her to explore this strange new place. But once inside, Steve finds it difficult to return... especially once he meets an oddly attractive woman named Fig, who lives within the lonely haunted world between Stacy's legs.
Kevin lives in a small apartment above a porn shop with his tarot-reading cat, Mithra. He has gotten used to Mithra bringing him things from outside: dead mice, Twinkie wrappers, donut scraps, houseplants, and the occasional rabbit head. But one day, Mithra brings him an ankle... a sweaty piece of rubber-latex shaped like a human ankle. Later, he is brought an eyeball, then a foot.
After more latex body parts are brought upstairs, Kevin decides to glue them together to form a piecemeal sex doll. But once the last piece is glued into place, the sex doll comes to life. She says her name is June. She comes from another world and is on the run from an evil pornographer and three crab-human hybrid assassins.
Piecemeal June is a reality-bending journey into love, sex, death, and a bizarre parallel world of butchered flesh.
After ten years, Hansel Nothing returns to his boyhood home, unable to remember anything that has happened to him since he left. Back home, he stays in Zerostrata, a treehouse in the backyard. The Nothing family is as dysfunctional and depressed as ever. His mother keeps a cat on her head and incessantly munches prescription medication. His father has left the house to pursue a career as a superhero. His brother wants to be the dad's superhero sidekick and thinks he can fly.
Hansel's life is changed forever when he meets Gretel, a free-spirited woman who runs naked through the woods every night. She teaches him about a world of magic and beauty. They travel to the moon together via a rope ladder, sail back to earth in an air balloon, and wander through a graveyard that allows them to view the dreams of the dead all while trying to escape Gretel's evil Grandmother.
Featuring: a gingerbread house surrounded by bear traps, lettuce pirates, The Amazing Dr. Blast, a one-legged pogo stick man, a giant orange trampoline, and Tricky the cigarette smoking cat who lives on Hansel's mother's head.
The premier magazine of the bizarro genre. Issue one features the novella "The Sex Beast of Scurvy Island" by Andersen Prunty, short fiction by Jordan Krall, Bruce Taylor, Garrett Cook, and Michael James Gibbs, comics by Andrew Goldfarb and Jeremy Kemp, articles by Mykle Hansen and Bradley Sands, a spotlight on author Gina Ranalli, The Wonderland Books Awards, BizarroCon report, and more!
The premier magazine of the bizarro genre. Issue two features the novella "The Traveling Dildo Salesman" by Kevin L. Donihe, short fiction by Mykle Hansen, D. Harlan Wilson, Gina Ranalli, Carlton Mellick III, and Vincent W. Sakowski, comics by Andrew Goldfarb and Richard Tingley, articles by Tom Bradley and Jordan Krall, a spotlight on author Carlton Mellick III, 10 years of Eraserhead Press, reviews, and more!
"The book reads like Dali attampting an exercise in a Zen sort of living-in-the-moment with an ADHD Alex from A Clockwork Orange." -Susurrus Magazine
Sky Tongues by Gina Ranalli
The True Hollywood Story of mue celebrity Sky Tongues, the biracial hermaphrodite with tongues for fingers.
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